John Scocos gets $325,000 settlement over firing

10:03 PM,
Nov. 12, 2013

John Scocos, secretary of the state Department of Veterans Affairs.

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Mary Spicuzza
Wisconsin State Journal

The state has agreed to pay Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary John Scocos $325,000 to settle lawsuits he filed against the department and the Veterans Affairs Board over his dismissal four years ago, documents filed Tuesday in Dane County Circuit Court show.

Scocos was fired from his job as Veterans Affairs secretary in November 2009 while Democratic Gov. Jim Doyle was still in office. Republican Gov. Scott Walker gave him his old job back in August 2011, shortly after the governor signed a law taking the power to appoint the secretary away from the board and giving it to the governor ...